The Natural History of the Bible ; Or, A Description of All the Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects, Trees, Plants, Flowers, Gums, and Precious Stones, Mentioned in the Sacred Scriptures: Collected from the Best Authorities, and Alphabetically Arranged |
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Page 23
Bochart 72 , is of opinion that the error arose from an expression in Scripture , "
the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it ; " in the Hebrew , PiJehovah , or Pi - Jeo .
Now , in the Egyptian language , pieo signifies an ass ; the Alexandrian
Egyptians ...
Bochart 72 , is of opinion that the error arose from an expression in Scripture , "
the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it ; " in the Hebrew , PiJehovah , or Pi - Jeo .
Now , in the Egyptian language , pieo signifies an ass ; the Alexandrian
Egyptians ...
Page 163
Nay , St. Matthew may have written bni , and have still meant to express sweet
wine ; if so , the difference only consisted in the points ; for the same word which ,
when pronounced chalé , signifies sweet , denotes vinegar as soon as it is ...
Nay , St. Matthew may have written bni , and have still meant to express sweet
wine ; if so , the difference only consisted in the points ; for the same word which ,
when pronounced chalé , signifies sweet , denotes vinegar as soon as it is ...
Page 196
The root DIN ANAPH , signifies to breathe short through the nostrils , to snuff , as
in anger ; hence to be angry ; and it is supposed that the word is sufficiently
descriptive of the heron , from its very irritable disposition . Bochart , however ,
thinks it ...
The root DIN ANAPH , signifies to breathe short through the nostrils , to snuff , as
in anger ; hence to be angry ; and it is supposed that the word is sufficiently
descriptive of the heron , from its very irritable disposition . Bochart , however ,
thinks it ...
Page 211
Authors give it , or the best sort of it , the epithets white , pure , pellucid ; and so it
may have some connexion with a word , derived from the same root , signifying
unstained , clear , and so applied to moral whiteness and purity 94 This gum is ...
Authors give it , or the best sort of it , the epithets white , pure , pellucid ; and so it
may have some connexion with a word , derived from the same root , signifying
unstained , clear , and so applied to moral whiteness and purity 94 This gum is ...
Page 253
The heavens shake , ” or as the word may signify , move , because the locusts
should obscure the very light of them : and thus Jerom himself explains it , though
he declares for the figurative sense : “ through the multitude of the locusts ...
The heavens shake , ” or as the word may signify , move , because the locusts
should obscure the very light of them : and thus Jerom himself explains it , though
he declares for the figurative sense : “ through the multitude of the locusts ...
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| Title | The Natural History of the Bible ; Or, A Description of All the Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects, Trees, Plants, Flowers, Gums, and Precious Stones, Mentioned in the Sacred Scriptures: Collected from the Best Authorities, and Alphabetically Arranged |
| Author | Thaddeus Mason Harris |
| Contributor | Chiswick Press |
| Publisher | T. Teggy, 1824 |
| Original from | Montserrat Abbey Library |
| Digitized | 21 Mar 2011 |
| Length | 430 pages |
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